Photojournalist George Silk, Oct. 23

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George Silk, a photojournalist who spent 30 years with Life magazine, earning fame for coverage of World War II and later pioneering the use of a "strip camera" for depicting athletes in motion, died three weeks short of his 88th birthday on Saturday, Oct. 23, 2004, in Norwalk, Conn. Silk, a New Zealand native, joined Life's photo staff in 1943 and spent the next two years covering the war on the Italian front, the Allied invasions of France and the Pacific. He shot the first pictures of Nagasaki, Japan, after the atomic bomb was dropped, as well as Japanese war criminals awaiting trial in postwar Tokyo.

George Silk, a photojournalist who spent 30 years with Life magazine, earning fame for coverage of World War II and later pioneering the use of a "strip camera" for depicting athletes in motion, died three weeks short of his 88th birthday on Saturday, Oct. 23, 2004, in Norwalk, Conn. Silk, a New Zealand native, joined Life's photo staff in 1943 and spent the next two years covering the war on the Italian front, the Allied invasions of France and the Pacific. He shot the first pictures of Nagasaki, Japan, after the atomic bomb was dropped, as well as Japanese war criminals awaiting trial in postwar Tokyo. (AP/ Life magazine, file)

George Silk, a photojournalist who spent 30 years with Life magazine, earning fame for coverage of World War II and later pioneering the use of a "strip camera" for depicting athletes in motion, died three weeks short of his 88th birthday on Saturday, Oct. 23, 2004, in Norwalk, Conn. Silk, a New Zealand native, joined Life's photo staff in 1943 and spent the next two years covering the war on the Italian front, the Allied invasions of France and the Pacific. He shot the first pictures of Nagasaki, Japan, after the atomic bomb was dropped, as well as Japanese war criminals awaiting trial in postwar Tokyo.